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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname did the pianist Vladimir de Pachmann acquire?

2. At what age did Glenn Gould begin playing piano?

3. When did pianist Arthur Rubinstein make his American debut?

4. Vladimir de Pachmann dressed in a smelly, old gown he claimed was whose?

5. What Russian pianist played Chopin's Polonaise for an amazed critic, George Bernard Shaw?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the forerunners of modernism? How did modernism differ from romanticism?

2. How did Vladimir Horowitz's piano career begin? What was the public reaction to the pianist?

3. Describe Harold Bauer's American debut. What is noted of the pianist's style?

4. What female students of Liszt are described in Chapter XXV, The Ladies?

5. How is the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff described by the author? Where was Sergei Rachmaninoff from?

6. What American pianists does Schonberg describe in Chapter XXXVIII, Made in America?

7. Who was Vladimir de Pachmann? What was his expertise and namesake?

8. What was the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on music?

9. Who was Harold Bauer? Describe the Bauer's early career.

10. What nickname did Leopold Godowsky earn? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define and describe the terms "fugue," "legato," and "style galant." How did these stylistic elements contribute to the changes from classicism to romanticism?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the pianist and conductor Hans von Bulow. How did he influence the German school of thought? What characteristics does the author make of the German style?

Essay Topic 3

How did the salon to the concert hall impact musicians, pianists, and composers? What differences are there between the two types of playing venues?

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